rising prices
a general and progressive increase in prices - in inflation everything gets more valuable except money • Syn: inflation • Ant: deflation (for: inflation), disinflation (for: inflation) • Derivationally related forms: inflationary (for: inflation), inflate (for: inflation) • Hypernyms: economic process • Hyponyms: cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation
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